ALOSHI (ALICE Offline Shifter Interface)

1. Arsen Hayrapetyan Yerevan Physics Institute ahairape@mail.yerphi.am Arsen.Hayrapetyan@cern.ch ALOSHI (ALICE Offline Shifter Interface)

2. ALICE Offline Shifter Tutorial, 23 Sep 2009 Outline Accessing ALOSHI Shifter’s links Shift reports composing locating editing deleting The alice-offline-shifts e-group and automatic emailing Sections (Books) Search: capabilities and limitations Feedback

3. ALICE Offline Shifter Tutorial, 23 Sep 2009 Accessing ALOSHI Located at https://aloshi.cern.ch Login: NICE login and password required No special registration procedure Users get registered with ALOSHI automatically when they access the interface for the first time Logout: The only correct way of leaving ALOSHI is the Logout link! It is also suggested to close the browser window once you have finished working with ALOSHI

4. ALICE Offline Shifter Tutorial, 23 Sep 2009 Home page: Shifter’s links Front page contains links to resources Offline Shifters use during their shift Offline Shifter Operations Manual Dashboard DAQ Logbook Offline Shifter Tutorials slides Shift report composition page

5. ALICE Offline Shifter Tutorial, 23 Sep 2009 Shift reports Composing (1) A shift report can be composed From the Home page → Shift report composition page link Shift reports menu in Navigation bar → Compose a shift report link You can create your shift report, e.g. in the beginning of your shift, save it, and edit it at any time later as necessary

6. ALICE Offline Shifter Tutorial, 23 Sep 2009 Shift reports Composing (2) Shift type must be selected (night, day, evening) Though other parameters can be changed (like the authorship of the shift report or its position in shift reports section), changing them is not recommended (to keep the taxonomy clear) - the defaults should be OK Content!

7. ALICE Offline Shifter Tutorial, 23 Sep 2009 Shift reports Composing (3) Should you have problems with composition of your report, e.g., browser crashes (noticed for FF 3.0.12 on SLC5, IE6 on WinXP) you can try one of the following remedies: Change the editor (to one with less number of features) On shift report composition page select Input format → Full HTML with TinyMCE Change the browser Switch to plain-text mode (no formatting available) On shift report composition page click Disable rich text link just below the shift report text area. You can switch back to rich-text mode clicking Enable rich text link (in the same position on the page)

8. ALICE Offline Shifter Tutorial, 23 Sep 2009 Shift reports Locating A shift report can be located Through Shift reports menu in Navigation bar Shift reports → Shift reports from the current (previous) period Through Advanced Search engine (e.g. by author) Search block → More options → Author [→ more... (to expand the full list of authors)] Through Sections menu in Navigation bar Sections → Offline Shifter's Notebook → Shift reports: period Through Search engine (using keywords) Enter keywords in Search block

9. ALICE Offline Shifter Tutorial, 23 Sep 2009 alice-offline-shifts e-group and automatic emailing alice-offline-shifts e-group will be used for notifications to Offline Shifters Shifter's e-mail gets automatically added to the e-group once they create their first shift report – no manual action required (but you can add yourself to the group if you wish so) The e-mails of those who have done Offline shifts by now (current period) are already added to the e-group Everyone can remove themselves from the e-group (via e-groups web interface: https://e-groups.cern.ch) Each time a new shift report is created an automatic notification will be sent by ALOSHI (sender: aloshi@cern.ch)

10. ALICE Offline Shifter Tutorial, 23 Sep 2009 Shift reports Editing Any user can edit any shift report Once the shift report is located click on its title → Edit After you are done click Save button (on the bottom of the page) Deleting Any user can delete their ownshift report Once the shift report is located click on its title → Edit Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click Delete button Confirm the action

11. ALICE Offline Shifter Tutorial, 23 Sep 2009 Shift reports, what else? Three main Sections (available through Sections menu in Navigation bar): Offline Shifter Operations Manual – primary source of information for Offline Shifter Description of operations the Offline Shifter should do Offline experts' contact information ALOSHI user howto various topics on the use ALOSHI Offline Shifter’s Notebook shift reports organised by shift periods

12. ALICE Offline Shifter Tutorial, 23 Sep 2009 Search: capabilities and limitations Categorised search by author by content type by date Search by keywords No substring match :( alishuttle will not be found in shuttle@pcalishuttle02

13. ALICE Offline Shifter Tutorial, 23 Sep 2009 Feedback Your feedback is welcome! through Feedback menu in the Navigation bar Failure reports Comments, suggestions Feature requests just add a comment e-mail to Arsen.Hayrapetyan@cern.ch